 ... to be divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. Degrees, minutes, and seconds, are designated respectively, by the characters ° ' ". For example, ten degrees, eighteen minutes, and fourteen...  Manual of plane trigonometry, by J.A. Galbraith and S. Haughton - Page 5by Joseph Allen Galbraith - 1852Full view - About this book
 | William Galbraith - Astronomy - 1827 - 412 pages
...whole circumference to be divided into 360 equal parts each called a degree. The degree was divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, and the minute into 60 equal parts called seconds, and the sexagesimal division was continued, though now the fractions of seconds are more commonly expressed... | |
 | William Galbraith - Astronomy - 1834 - 454 pages
...whole circumference to be divided into 360 equal parts, each called a degree. The degree was divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, and the minute into 60 equal parts called seconds, and the sexagesimal division was continued, though now the fractions of seconds are commonly expressed... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1845 - 444 pages
...called degrees, and each degree is supposed to be divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. Degrees, minutes, and seconds, are distinguished by the following marks : — 7° 3' 24", which is read 7 degrees, 3 minutes, and 24 seconds.... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1852 - 436 pages
...called degrees ; each degree is supposed to be divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. Degrees, minutes, and seconds, are designated respectively, by the characters ° ' ". For example, ten degrees, eighteen minutes, and... | |
 | Charles Davies - Navigation - 1852 - 412 pages
...called degrees ; each degree is supposed . to be divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. Degrees, minutes, and seconds, are designated respectively, by the characters ° ' ". For example, ten degrees, eighteen minutes, and... | |
 | James B. Dodd - Arithmetic - 1852 - 410 pages
...divided into 360 equal parts called degrees, each degree into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. Degrees, minutes, and seconds, are denoted thus 25° 30' 45", 25 deg. 30 min. 45 sec. § 395. An Angle is measured by the number of degrees,... | |
 | James B. Dodd - 1853 - 398 pages
...divided into 360 equal parts called degrees, each degree into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. Degrees, minutes, and seconds, are denoted thus 25o 30' 45", 25 deg. 30 nin. 45 sec. $ 395. An Angle is measured by the number of degrees,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometry - 1854 - 436 pages
...called degrees ; each degree is supposed to be divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. Degrees, minutes, and seconds, are designated respec• tiively, by the characters ° ' ". For example, ten degrees, . eighteen m1nutes,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Navigation - 1854 - 446 pages
...called degrees ; each degree is supposed to be divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. Degrees, minutes, and seconds, are designated respectively, by the characters ° ' ". For example, ten degrees, eighteen minutes, and... | |
 | John Radford Young - 1855 - 218 pages
...circumference of the circle is conceived to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees; the degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and the minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds ; the still smaller parts are represented as fractions or decimals of the second. Degrees, minutes,... | |
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